What’s that, Lassie? The old defaults fell down a well?

It’s time to shake up the defaults again! In the past we’ve just swapped out one subreddit for another, but this time we’re going to try something different. Instead of twenty-five default subreddits, we’re going to bump it up to fifty. You can look forward to a wider variety of topics and a frontpage that is much more fluid than today’s frontpage.

As a reminder, the default subreddits are what people without an account see when they visit reddit.com, and the “starter set” of subscriptions when someone creates a new account. Most of the old default set was selected based on user activity and interest from years ago. reddit has grown and changed so much over the years that it’s only fair to increase the number of subreddits so we can showcase newer subreddits that reflect the interests of the current userbase. This is sort of an experiment… we plan on changing the defaults more often, and we are always looking for great subreddits to potentially add to the list. So once again, without further ado, here are our new defaults!